books.google.com - In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound,...https://books.google.com/books/about/An_American_Procession.html?id=yorj0JDHTrgC&q=Lincoln&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAn American Procession